Black Masculinities is an all day conference organized and sponsored by the Africana Studies Group of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. This conference seeks to clear a space for a strategic, systematic interrogation of Black masculinities, exploring the complexity of representations and performances of Black masculinity, and analyzing the simultaneous commodification and dehumanization of Black males. We recognize that theories of Black masculinities effect cultural critique, public policy and community activism. Black masculinity should represent (and often has represented) a complex, disruptive and liberating theoretical and political stance. Despite this radical potential, Black masculinity often remains a problematic vacancy, both inside the academy and in its lived experience in the world. The papers at the conference will, we hope, contribute to the identification and articulation of a progressive Black Masculinity. We invite papers and panel suggestions from academic and independent scholars from all fields in the social sciences and humanities, as well as artists and activists.

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